Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden join up for summer North American tour

Nine Inch Nails will pair up with Soundgarden for a North American tour in July and August, focused mostly on amphitheatres and capping it all with an August 25th stop at the Hollywood Bowl.

Nine Inch Nails is currently winding down the last few dates of their Australian tour with Queen of the Stone Age, after which they'll work in a handful of South American festival dates before spending much of May and June in Europe.

The band recently taped an episode of Austin City Limits, which will premiere April 5th.

For its part, Soundgarden played their 1994 release Superunknown in Austin during the SXSW music festival as part of the iTunes Festival series at the Moore Theatre, where Austin City Lmits is recorded. They'll release a 5-disc commemorative anniversary package of the album in June.

According to an article in Brazil's Globo.com, Soundgarden will temporarily borrow drummer-about-town Matt Chamberlain for the tour, as their standard beat-keeper Matt Cameron is on Pearl Jam duty this year.